As We Were (1976)

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic like rats on a sinking ship, the brave female citizens, led by the bold wife of the burgomaster, decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet.

The Burning Moon centers on two bedtime stories that a delinquent brother reads his kid sister after injecting himself with herion. These disturbingly morbid stories focus on a serial killing blind date and a murderous, psychotic priest. The Burning Moon is notorious for being one of the bloodiest and goriest SOV movies.

The first journey around the world began under the command of Ferdinand Magellan and was concluded by Juan Sebastián Elcano. Five boats left Seville on September 20, 1519. Storms, famine, tribes… Three years later, only one made it back. An incredible adventure around the planet whose roundness was finally proven.

Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. He is recaptured when her lover Guatemoco finds Alvarado hiding in her chambers. Tecza next leads Cortez into the city, thus causing the destruction of her nation and securing the love of Alvarado.

Set at the turn of the 20th century during the Filipino revolution against the Spaniards and, later, the American colonizers, it follows a naive peasant through his leap of faith to become a member of an imagined community.

The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but he follows her. She is rescued from a wild taxi ride by a passerby who owns a huge plumbing company. Believing him to be a common plumber, she snubs him, but he pursues her and a romantic rivalry is born.

Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín, during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence, as one of his secretaries, when he was only 15 years old.

Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padilla, leader of the uprising, and his captains, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, fight against the imperial armies, his wife, María de Pacheco, rules the city of Toledo, capital of the rebels.

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the livelihood. An experiential film on neocolonial Philippines’ interpretation of Saints and Gods through many forms of rituals and iconographies, exposing wood as raw material that undergoes production processes before becoming a spiritual object of devotion. - A sculpture believed to have been imported in town during Spanish colonial conquest, locally known as Mahal na Señor Sepulcro, is celebrating its 500 years. Meanwhile, composed of non-actors, Senakulo re-enacts the sufferings and death of Jesus. As the local community yearly unites to commemorate the Passion of Christ, a laborious journey unfolds following local craftsmen in transforming blocks of wood into a larger than life Jesus crucified on a 12-ft cross.

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities in his defense of Chinese workers, brought to the sugar plantations by greedy middlemen and exploited as slaves. Two parallel stories unfold, that of a Chinese girl which Eça de Queiroz saves from the clutches of one of the island’s most powerful slave owners, and the other of a romance involving a young American woman on holidays in Havana.

A journey through the Spain of the Baroque, the glorious 17th century, an unfortunate era of endless wars and political tribulations; but also of great painters and sculptors who created astonishing pieces of art: el Siglo de Oro.

The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss or Friedrich Trumpf, Donald Trump's grandfather. During the 19th century, thirty million people — Germans, Irish, Scots, Russians, Hungarians, Italians and many others — left the old continent, fleeing poverty, racism or political repression, hoping to make a fortune and realize the American dream.

This is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.

Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more than 3,000 years.

The story takes place in Equatorial Guinea, where Mr. Cuchillas leads a mafia gang that takes care of dirty business. Even a shoe shine will come to him, in search of a more profitable job.

カリスマ的な統率力を誇る猿のシーザーが、仲間を率いて人類への反乱を起こしてから10年後。遺伝子の進化、知能と言語の獲得により猿たちはさらに進化を遂げ、独自の文明を形成、森の奥に平和なコミュニティを築いていた。一方、10年前に自らが生み出したウイルスにより人類は90％が死に追いやられ、僅かな生存者グループは、荒廃した都市部の一角に身を潜め、希望なき日々を過ごしている。そんなある日、人間たちが資源を求めて森に足を踏み入れたことから、猿たちとの間に危うい緊張が走る。

自分に自信がなく恋人のいないティムは21歳の誕生日に、父親から一家の男たちにはタイムトラベル能力があることを告げられる。恋人を得るため張り切ってタイムトラベルを繰り返すティムは、やがて魅力的な女性メアリーと恋をする。しかしタイムトラベルによって生じたアクシデントにより、そもそもメアリーと出会っていなかったということになってしまう。

8日後に市長選を控えたニューヨーク。7年前に警察官を辞め、私立探偵として生計を立てるビリーは、警官辞職の原因となった殺人事件に関する秘密を互いに知る現市長ホステラーから妻の浮気を調べるように依頼される。調べを進めるうちに、浮気相手が市長再選を狙うホステラーの対立候補の右腕であるアンドリュースだったことが判明。やがて、アンドリュースが誰かに殺害される。

1945年8月30日、GHQ最高司令官ダグラス・マッカーサーが日本に上陸し、アメリカによる本格的な日本統治が始まる。マッカーサーは戦争犯罪人の一斉検挙とその戦争犯罪を裁くため、活動を開始する。折からアメリカ本国では、天皇の訴追を求める声が政府にも国民世論にも多数を占めていた。その一方、極東における「反共の防波堤」建設を重要視し、また後年の政界進出、大統領選出馬をにらむマッカーサーにとっては、日本の戦後統治で成功を収めることが是が非でも必要あり、その観点から天皇を逮捕処刑することによる日本国民の反発を避けたいと彼は考えていた。マッカーサーは日本の開戦、真珠湾攻撃の意志決定に天皇の関与が決定的影響を及ぼしたのか否か、部下に調査を命じる。

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